2009年8月14日星期五

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Missing cargo ship found near Cape Verde (AP)

Posted: 14 Aug 2009 12:48 PM PDT

In this Dec. 29, 2008 photo the cargo ship the Arctic Sea is seen in Kotka, Finland. The Arctic Sea, a Maltese-flagged cargo ship, was supposed to make port in Algeria with its cargo of timber on August 4. More than a week later, there's no sign of the ship or its Russian crew. (AP Photo/Pekka Laakso/Lehitukuva)AP - A Russian-manned cargo ship that vanished last month in the Atlantic was found Friday near Cape Verde off the coast of West Africa, according to French and Russian officials. There was no immediate information about the condition of the crew or whether there was anyone else on board.

Marines try a woman's touch to reach Afghan hearts (AP)

Posted: 14 Aug 2009 11:23 AM PDT

This Aug. 10, 2009 photo shows Marine Lt. Victoria Sherwood, of Woodbury, Conn., talking with 8-year-old Bibi Asha, right, and her grandmother, Nazu, while visiting the village of Khwaji Jamal with Golf Company, 2nd Batallion, 3rd Regiment of the 2nd MEB, 2nd MEF in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. Sherwood is part of Female Engagement Team whose mission is to make contact with Afghan woman in villages where U.S. Marines regularly patrol. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)AP - Put on body armor, check weapons, cover head and shoulders with a scarf.

Britons unite to defend health care amid US debate (AP)

Posted: 14 Aug 2009 01:38 PM PDT

Ambulances belonging to the National Health Service, seen, outside one of London's major hospitals St Mary's, in Paddington, London, Friday, Aug. 14, 2009. Britons love to mock their creaky National Health Service but they don't want anyone else poking fun at it. They particularly don't want right-wing Americans to use Britain's universal health care system as a punching bag in their battle against President Barack Obama's proposed reforms. Conservatives in the United States are using horror stories about Britain's system to warn Americans that Obama is trying to impose a socialized system that would give the government too much power, but Britons are digging in their heels, saying their system should be praised, not demonized. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)AP - Britons love to mock their National Health Service — just don't let anyone else poke fun at it.

Reformers call for probe of Iran supreme leader (AP)

Posted: 14 Aug 2009 10:07 AM PDT

EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on their ability to film or take pictures in Tehran Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) receives a certificate declaring him as President of the Islamic Republic of Iran from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran August 3, 2009. Iran's supreme leader formally approved the second term presidency of Ahmadinejad on Monday after a disputed election that leading reformists say was rigged to ensure the incumbent's victory. REUTERS/khamenei.ir (IRAN POLITICS IMAGES OF THE DAY) QUALITY FROM SOURCEAP - A group of former reformist lawmakers appealed to a powerful clerical body in Iran to investigate Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's qualification to rule in an unprecedented challenge to the country's most powerful man over the postelection crackdown.

Taiwan's president criticized for typhoon response (AP)

Posted: 14 Aug 2009 10:11 AM PDT

In this image released by the Taiwan Military News Agency, soldiers help survivors to move food items, at a flooded village Meishan, following Typhoon Morakot, Friday, Aug. 14, 2009, in Chiayi County, Middle of Taiwan. Taiwanese relief workers struggled to rescue 1,900 villagers still stranded Friday nearly a week after a devastating typhoon, and disaster officials said as many as 400 people may have been buried in mudslides in the worst-hit village.(AP Photo/ Taiwan Military News Agency)AP - Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou sharply raised the expected death toll from Typhoon Morakot on Friday to more than 500, amid mounting criticism of his handling of the worst storm to strike the island in over 50 years.

The Afghan Age Divide (Time.com)

Posted: 14 Aug 2009 12:30 PM PDT

Time.com - The Afghan Age Divide

Let them eat cake at Gulag city birthday party (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Aug 2009 05:10 PM PDT

Reuters - Yelena Zyuzka still doesn't understand why she was exiled to Magadan, but 62 years later she would happily share the enormous cake baked to celebrate the city's birthday.

Hezbollah chief: We'll hit Tel Aviv if Beirut hit (AP)

Posted: 14 Aug 2009 02:56 PM PDT

Hezbollah supporters raise their hands in front of Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah who speaks via a video link, during a rally to mark the third anniversary of the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on Friday Aug. 14, 2009. The leader of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah Sheik Hassan Nasrallah says his group will hit Israel's main city of Tel Aviv if Israeli forces attack Beirut or the guerrillas' stronghold in its southern suburbs. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)AP - The leader of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah warned Israel Friday his fighters would hit Tel Aviv with rockets if Israeli forces attack Beirut or the guerrillas' stronghold in its southern suburbs.

Honduras charges Zelaya supporters with sedition (AP)

Posted: 14 Aug 2009 05:21 PM PDT

Police and army soldiers stand guard on the sidelines of a march by supporters of Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya in Tegucigalpa, Friday, Aug. 14, 2009. Zelaya was ousted in a coup on June 28.(AP Photo/Esteban Felix)AP - Two dozen supporters of Honduras' ousted president were charged with sedition Friday in an intensifying crackdown on protests against the coup-installed government.

Captive Egyptians defeat Somali pirates, sail free (AP)

Posted: 14 Aug 2009 02:25 PM PDT

In this photo released by the Turkish military five alleged pirates are apprehended by Turkish commandoes in the Gulf of Aden, off the coast of Somalia in July 2009. In a separate incident fishermen on two Egyptian boats seized by Somali pirates four months ago overpowered their captors and broke free Thursday, officials and pirate sources said.(AFP/HO/File)AP - Using machetes and guns, the men fought a desperate battle to take control of two boats off the Somali coast. But this time, it wasn't pirates who launched the attack — it was Egyptian fishermen who had been held hostage for four months and who killed two brigands and took others captive as they regained control of their vessels.

Blast in Istanbul kills one (AFP)

Posted: 14 Aug 2009 03:59 PM PDT

Turkish Interior Minister Besir Atalay (L) speaks to journalists after a meeting with Ahmet Turk, leader of the Democratic Society Party in Ankara on August 13, 2009 where they were expected to discuss the Kurdish problem. A bomb blast outside a textile factory in Istanbul on August 14, killed one person and injured another, CNN-Turk reported.(AFP/Adem Altan)AFP - A bomb blast outside a textile factory in Istanbul on Friday killed one person and injured another, CNN-Turk reported.

Canada not yet out of recession, PM says (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Aug 2009 11:24 AM PDT

Reuters - Canada is not yet out of the recession that has gripped the world, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Friday, adding that now is not the time for opposition parties to be contemplating an election.

Australian quadriplegic man granted right to die (AP)

Posted: 14 Aug 2009 11:05 AM PDT

AP - Christian Rossiter has proven his legal right to die and declared himself a champion of other quadriplegics who no longer find life worth living.

6 years after invasion, electricity still scarce in Baghdad (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 14 Aug 2009 08:22 AM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Dark humor flips on when the lights go out in a city that still suffers from crippling power outages despite the billions of dollars that have been invested in its grid.

Mediation stalls in Honduras as leaders refuse Zelaya's return (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 14 Aug 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The month-old mediation effort by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias to resolve Honduras's political crisis is foundering under the near-universal opposition of Honduras's top leaders to permitting deposed President Manuel Zelaya to return to power.

President Obama's Latin Challenge (Time.com)

Posted: 14 Aug 2009 12:30 PM PDT

Time.com - President Obama's Latin Challenge

Green Methods Grow Better Coffee in Ethiopia (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 14 Aug 2009 12:55 PM PDT

OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (OneWorld.net) - In Ethiopia, coffee growers know that what is good for the environment is also good for business.

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